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As a beginner or immediate C++ programmer, you heard never mixing unsigned and signed integer types or avoiding unsigned integers ...
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If you read the previous articles about event-based firmware, modularisation and templates, you may wonder how to combine all these ...
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Error handling in firmware is a difficult task. If you decide to ignore errors, the best you can expect is ...
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You may be familiar with enum values, but do you know about enum classes? This great feature was introduced with ...
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Templates are a powerful feature of the C++ language, but their syntax can be complex. Here I will continue with ...
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Did you read my article about C++ templates for embedded code? You learned how to use function templates. This post ...
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Templates are a powerful feature of the C++ language but their syntax can be complex. This causes some developers to ...
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This article is just a short follow-up article for “Write Less Code using the ‘auto’ Keyword”. Structured binding is something ...
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This article is for embedded software developers with a solid working knowledge of C or C++, but who struggle with ...
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In my opinion, preprocessor macros and the outdated #include mechanism are one of the worst parts of the C++ language ...
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The auto keyword was introduced with C++11. It reduces the amount of code you have to write, reduces repetitive code ...
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In your program code, you often deal with unitless values. You can add the units of measurements in the variable ...
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After writing the article about event-based firmware, I realised there are some misunderstandings about how real-time counters are working and ...
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Should you use a class or a module with a namespace for a singleton interface in your firmware? I found ...
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In the first part of this series, we explored the general concept of event-based firmware. To read that article, follow ...
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You start with small, simple firmware. But with each added feature, the complexity grows and grows. Soon, you need a ...
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Sadly there is a ton of badly written code out in the wild. Hardware related code, seem to suffer more ...
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Flags play an important role in embedded software development. Microcontrollers and chips are using registers where single bits or combinations ...
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While most naming conflicts in C++ can be solved using namespaces, this is not true for preprocessor macros. Macros cannot ...
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Namespaces are a feature of C++ which address the problem of name conflicts. There is a "global" namespace, where everything ...
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